Notification No.09/2019 Date: 01.03.2019 GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL NADU TEACHERS RECRUITMENT BOARD 4 th Floor, EVK Sampath Maaligai, DPI Campus, College Road, Chennai 600 006. Website : http://www.trb.tn.nic.in NOTIFICATION Applications are invited only through online mode from eligible candidates up to 05:00 PM on 10.04.2019 for the Direct Recruitment for the post of Computer Instructors Grade-I (Post Graduate cadre) in School Education department for the year 2018-2019. Sl.No Name of the Post & Scale of Pay Service 1. Computer Instructors Grade-I (Post Graduate cadre) Rs.36900 116600) (Level 18) in the minimum pay of Rs.36900 Tamil Nadu Higher Secondary Educational Service Post Code No. of Vacancies 19 CI 814 1. Important Dates :- A. Date of Notification : 01.03.2019 B. Date of Commencement of application through online mode : 20.03.2019 C. Last date for submission of application through online mode : 10.04.2019 D. Date of Online Computer Based Examination 2. The Details of Vacancies : Communal Turn No. of Vacancies GT 141 GT T 35 GT W 61 GT WT 15 BC 121 BC T 30 BC W 52 BC WT 13 BCM 15 BCM T 4 BCM W 7 BCM WT 2 MBC/DNC 91 MBC/DNC T 23 MBC/DNC W 39 MBC/DNC WT 10 SC 68 SC T 17 SC W 29 SC WT 8 SCA 12 SCA T 5 SCA W 5 SCA WT 3 ST 4 ST T 2 ST WT 2 Total 814 : Will be announced later Note: The estimated number of vacancies given above is tentative and subject to the approval of Director of School Education. - 1 -
ABBREVIATIONS GT : General Turn BC : Backward Class BCM : Backward Class Muslim MBC/ : Most Backward Class / DNC Denotified Communities SC : Scheduled Caste SCA : Scheduled Caste Arunthathiyar ST : Scheduled Tribe T : Tamil Medium W : Women G : General 3. Reservations : a) Vertical Reservation: 69% C o m m u n a l r e s e r v a t i o n w i l l be followed vertically as per existing Government rules / Orders i.e., 18% shall be reserved for Scheduled Castes including 3% offered to Arunthathiyars on preferential basis amongst the Scheduled Castes, 1% for Scheduled Tribes, 26.5% for Backward Classes (other than Backward Class Muslims), 3.5% for the Backward Class Muslims, 20% for Most Backward Classes and Denotified Communities and 31% shall be filled on the basis of merit. Provided that even after filling up of the required candidates for posts reserved for Arunthathiyars amongst the Scheduled Castes, if more number of qualified Arunthathiyars are available, such excess number of candidates of Arunthathiyars shall be entitled to compete with the other Scheduled Castes in the inter-se-merit among them and if any appointment or post reserved for Arunthathiyars remains unfilled for want of adequate number of qualified candidates, it shall be filled up by Scheduled Castes other than Arunthathiyars. b) Horizontal Reservation : i. Women Reservation: 30% Women reservation will be provided horizontally as per existing Government Rules / Orders. If qualified and suitable women candidates are not available for selection against the vacancies reserved for them, those vacancies will be filled by male candidates belonging to those respective communal categories. ii. Reservation for Persons Studied in Tamil Medium (PSTM): For the direct recruitment of Computer Instructors Grade-I (Post Graduate cadre), 20% horizontal reservation on preferential basis for persons who studied both P.G degree and B.Ed./Special B.Ed. degree in Tamil Medium will be followed as per existing Government Orders. This reservation is subject to the availability of suitable eligible candidates. In the event of non-availability of such candidates the posts reserved for PSTM candidates will be filled by non-tamil medium candidates. - 2 -
iii. Special Reservation for Persons with Disability: The reservation of 4% as per G.O.(Ms) No.21 Welfare of Differently Abled Persons (DAP 3.2) Department dated.30.5.2017 for differently-abled persons will be followed. 4. Qualifications: a) Age Limit: Candidates should not be over 57 years as on 01-07-2019 as the age of superannuation is 58 years. b) Educational Qualifications: No persons shall be eligible for appointment to the Computer Instructors Grade-I (Post Graduate cadre) post unless the candidate possesses the following qualifications as per G.O.(Ms) No.26, School Education (SE7-1) Department, Dated 12.02.2019. i) Post Graduate with at least 50% marks (or its equivalent) from recognized University and Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) from National Council for Teacher Education recognized institution. (or) ii) Post Graduate with at least 45% marks (or its equivalent) from recognized University and Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) from NCTE recognized institution in accordance with the National Council for Teacher Education (Form of application for recognition, the time limit of submission of application, determination of norms and standards for recognition teacher education programmes and permission to start new course of training) Regulations, 2002 notified on 13.11.2002 and National Council for Teacher Education (Recognition Norms and Procedure) Regulations, 2007 notified on 10.12.2007. (or) iii) Post Graduate with at least 50% marks (or its equivalent) from recognized University and B.A. Ed./B.Sc. Ed., from any NCTE recognized institution. The above NCTE norm is applicable with the below mentioned relevant subjects as per Letter Rc.No.008101/V1/E2/2019, Dated 22.02.2019 of Director of School Education. Master s Degree in Engineering or Technology in Computer Science / M.Tech Degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering /Information Technology / Software Engineering from any recognised University or its equivalent and B.Ed., / B.A. Ed.,/ B.Sc. Ed., by recognised University or its equivalent. of - 3 -
or Master s Degree in Computer Applications / Master s Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology from any recognised University or its equivalent and B.Ed., / B.A. Ed.,/ B.Sc. Ed., by recognised University or its equivalent. iv) As per G.O.Ms.No.361 School Education Department dated 31.12.1999, candidates should have studied the same subject or its equivalent subject in Bachelor's Degree and Master s Degree. v) Candidates who obtained a Degree (UG/PG) after undergoing a course of one year duration (Double degree / Dual degree / etc.) are not eligible to apply for this recruitment. vi) Candidates who obtained any of the required qualifications (SSLC, HSC (or) its equivalent, U.G Degree, P. G Degree, B.Ed. / Special B.Ed. Degree) simultaneously a r e not eligible to apply for this recruitment. vii) The candidates applying for the posts should have passed Tamil Language as Part- I or Part- II up to SSLC and PUC/Higher Secondary Course levels. If not, the candidate should pass Tamil Language Test conducted by the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission within two years from the date of appointment. viii) The candidates not having prescribed qualifications, as on the last date of submission of filled-in online application, shall not be eligible to apply. The candidates should satisfy themselves about their eligibility before applying. It is to be noted that if a candidate is allowed to appear for the examination it does not imply that the eligibility of the candidate is verified. The eligibility shall be verified by the Board only at the time of Certificate Verification. Note: All qualifying / equivalent certificates should have been obtained prior to the last date for submission of filled-in online applications, announced in the recruitment notification. - 4 -
c) Equivalent Qualifications: If a candidate claims that the educational qualification in the subject possessed by the candidate is equivalent to, though not the same, as those prescribed for the appointment, the candidate has to produce the subject equivalence G.O issued by the Government of Tamil Nadu at the time of Certificate Verification. 5. How to Apply? a. Candidates should apply only through online mode in the TRB website http://www.trb.tn.nic.in. The application process is entirely online. No application in paper will be accepted by TRB. b. Evidence for claims made by the candidate while applying online should be submitted by the candidate at the time of Certificate Verification, if called for. 6. Examination fee: a. The Examination fee is Rs.500/- for all the candidates except SC, SCA, ST and Person with Disability. For SC, SCA, ST and Person with Disability Candidates, the examination fee is Rs.250/-. Since the examination fee is different for various categories, candidates are advised to enter the correct Community / Person with Disability category. Once the payment is made, it will not be refunded. b. Online payment to be made only through Payment Gateway. (Net banking/credit Card / Debit Card) c. Offline mode of payment in any form such as Demand Draft / Postal order etc. will not be accepted. d. The candidates have also to pay the service charges as applicable for online payment. 7. Scheme of Examination: i ) The Online Computer Based Examination will consist of a single paper of 3 hours duration with 150 MCQs. Each question carries one mark. The marks allotted to the Main Subject (Computer Science), General Knowledge and Education Psychology as per Letter Rc.No.008101 /V1/E2/2019, Dated 22.02.2019 of Director of School Education. Computer Science 130 General Knowledge 10 Education Psychology 10 Total 150 The syllabus for the Examination has been issued in G.O.(2D) No.10, School Education (SE7(1)) Department, Dated 27.02.2019. The syllabus can be downloaded from the TRB website http://www.trb.tn.nic.in. - 5 -
ii) Minimum Eligibility Mark: As per G.O.Ms.No.107, School Education (Q2) Department, dated 24.07.2003 and Govt. Lr. No.12305/Q2/03-02, dated 08.10.2003, candidates have to secure a minimum of 50% marks in the examination (for SC-45% mark, ST-40% mark). iii. Normalization of the marks: The Online Computer Based Examination may be conducted in multiple sessions. Whenever Online Computer Based Examination is conducted in multiple sessions based on the same syllabus, same pattern for candidates having same eligibility criteria, the raw marks obtained by the candidates in different sessions will be converted to normalized marks. A candidate will be permitted to appear only in one session. In case if there is only one session, actual marks obtained by the candidates will be used for calculating the merit list. iv. Calculation of normalized marks for multi-session papers: In case of multi session papers, a suitable normalization is applied to take into account any variation in the difficulty levels of the question papers across different sessions. The following Normalization formula for calculating the normalized marks for the multi-session paper is adopted as followed in various Competitive Examinations in India. Normalization mark of j th candidate in i th session is given by: : the actual marks obtained by the j th candidate in i th session. : : : : the average marks of the top 0.1% of the candidates considering all sessions. the sum of mean and standard deviation marks of the candidates in the paper considering all sessions. the average marks of the top 0.1% of the candidates in the ith session or marks of topper if session strength is less than 1000. the sum of the mean marks and standard deviation of the ith session. - 6 -
8. Selection Procedure: The Selection will be made in two successive stages viz., (a) Online Computer Based Examination (b) Certificate Verification. (a) Online Computer Based Examination: The date, time and Center for the Online Computer Based Examination will be indicated in the Hall Ticket. The Hall Ticket for the eligible candidates will be uploaded by the TRB in its website. The candidates are advised to refer the TRB website for details (http://www.trb.tn.nic.in). No written communication will be sent to the candidate. The decision of the Teachers Recruitment Board on the eligibility of the candidate to appear for the online computer based examination will be final. Scribes: While applying the application online, on request, Visually impaired candidates/eligible orthopedically impaired candidates will be allowed assistance of scribes based on the Medical Certificate produced by the candidates. Examination Results: The Roll-Number-wise Mark List of all candidates will be published in the website of TRB viz. http://www.trb.tn.nic.in. media. A press release will be issued in this connection through print or visual (b) Certificate Verification: The Board will prepare the list of Candidates for Certificate Verification on 1:2 ratio based on the Online Computer Based Examination Marks duly following the communal rotation and other relevant rules in vogue. Note: If more than one candidate secures the same cut-off mark for the particular communal turn, all such candidates will be called for CV. Certificate Verification List and C.V Call letter will be published in the TRB Website http://www.trb.tn.nic.in only. Candidates short-listed as above shall bring all the original and attested copies of all Certificates as stated in the call letter for Certificate Verification. Candidates who are not personally present for the Certificate Verification on the prescribed date shall not be considered for further selection process even if they have secured the minimum qualifying marks for selection. - 7 -
9. Selection: A fresh merit list will be prepared after Certificate Verification based on the marks secured in the Online Computer Based Examination only. However, final selection will be made from the fresh merit list duly following merit-cumcommunal rotation. The list of successful candidates will be published in the website viz. http://www.trb.tn.nic.in. The final selection of the candidates is subject to fulfillment of necessary eligibility criteria and the decision of Teachers Recruitment Board will be final. The appointment orders for provisionally selected candidates will be issued by the Director of School Education after due verification. a) Original Certificates and Mark statements pertaining to the following Educational qualifications i) 10 th / SSLC ii) 12 th / H.S.C. or its equivalent iii) U.G. Degree in the relevant subject iv) P.G. Degree in the relevant subject v) B.Ed. / B.A. Ed./ B.Sc. Ed. or its equivalent b) Community Certificate: Community Certificate should be obtained from the following authorities of Government of Tamil Nadu for candidates claiming Communal reservation as the case may be. i) ST - Revenue Divisional Officer ( if the certificate is issued after 11.11.1989) ii) SC/SCA - Tahsildar of native taluk of the candidate. iii) BC / MBC / DNC - Headquarters Tahsildar or Special Deputy Tahsildar. Deputy iv) Community Certificate of married women issued in father s name (Not in Husband s Name) alone shall be accepted. v) Community certificates issued by any other State or Union Territory Authorities will not be considered against vacancies reserved for 69% communal reservation. They will be considered only under Open Competition. c) Tamil Medium Study Certificate: Candidate who claims reservation under PSTM ( P e r s o n s s t u d i e d i n T a m i l M e d i u m ) category has to produce Tamil Medium Study Certificate in the prescribed format (Annexure I) for P.G. and B.Ed./Special B.Ed. Degree. - 8 -
d) Disability Certificate: (if applicable) A candidate who wants to avail the benefit of reservation under PWD candidates would have to submit an Identity Card and Passbook with Disability Certificate issued by the Competent Authorities. 10. General Information: 1. Candidates should ensure that they have their scanned recent color passport size photograph (JPG/JPEG /PNG format of size 20-60 kb) and signature (JPG/JPEG/PNG format of size 10-30 kb) separately. The online application uploaded without the photograph and signature will be rejected. 2. A valid e-mail id and Mobile Number are mandatory for registration and e-mail id should be kept active till the declaration of results. 3. The number of vacancies notified is only tentative and is liable for modification with reference to vacancy position of Directorate of School Education before finalization of selection. 4. Evidence of claims made in the online application should be submitted at the time of Certificate Verification, if called for. Any subsequent claim made thereafter on submission of online application will not be entertained at any cost. 5. Incomplete applications and applications containing false claims or incorrect particulars relating to category of reservation, basic qualifications, communal category and other eligibility criteria will be liable for rejection. 6. Candidates are not allowed to bring mobile phones, smart watches, bands or rings with in-built memory notes or any other e lectronic gadgets, Clark s table or calculators, etc., inside the Examination Hall. 7. Applicants are advised, in their own interest, not to bring any of the banned items including mobile phones to the Examination Venue, as arrangements for safe keeping cannot be assured. 8. No candidate should misbehave in any manner or create a disorderly scene in the examination centre or harass the staff employed by the Board during the conduct of Online Computer Based Examination. Any such misconduct will be viewed seriously and penalized accordingly. - 9 -
9. No T.A./D.A. will be paid. Candidates will have to bear their own expenses to attend the Online Computer Based Examination and the Certificate Verification, if called for. 10. In the matter of recruitment, the decision of the Teachers Recruitment Board is final. 11. Canvassing in any form will be a disqualification for selection. 12. The online application can be submitted till 05.00 PM on 10.04.2019 after which the link will be disabled. Chairman - 10 -
ANNEXURE - I Tamil Medium: Persons Studied in Tamil Medium (PSTM) have to produce evidence, such as Transfer Certificate, Provisional Certificate / Convocation Certificate / Degree Certificate / mark sheets received from the Board or University or from the Institution, with a recording that the candidate studied the prescribed educational Qualification in Tamil Medium. The candidate claiming the evidence for Persons Studied in Tamil Medium, a certificate from the Head of the Institution is to be produced as follows: This is PSTM Certificate (Model Format) (To be issued only by the Head of Institution) to certify that Thiru/Tmt/Selvi.. (Name) has studied... (Course Name) during the years. to. in Tamil Medium. This certificate is issued after verifying the course content / Statement of Marks / Transfer Certificate. Place: Date: Registrar/Principal/Head of the Institution Office Seal Note: Inconsistencies / errors that are not attested by the issuing officer with seal will result in rejection of the certificate. The counter signing authorities should keep one original copy of the certificates issued by them for future verification - 11 -